At ACIL, Iris will specifically focus on her thesis project on the protection of the right of the child to participate in cultural life in the digital environment. This research aims to identify the positive and negative impacts of the use of digital technologies on the realisation of this fundamental right of the child, and to determine how the obligations of States and the responsibilities of companies should be implemented in the digital environment in order to promote its protection.

She holds an LL.M. in Fundamental Rights from the Université Laval and a master’s degree from Sciences Po Rennes, France. She has worked as a research professional at the UNESCO Chair on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and as coordinator of the Arts, Media and Cultural Diversity axis of the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies (OBVIA). She is currently a research assistant at the UNESCO Chair on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.